Yesterday, I was craving Pizza Hut's Pizza, so I went ahead and ordered one, but I made sure that I ate only 2 slices. Craving for take-away &/or junk food is fine just keep it in moderation & watch the macros.
Like Built said "Nobody gets fat or becomes unhealthy because they have a cheeseburger and fries at McDonald's once in a while."
Sooner or later almost everyone gives in to cheat meal. But with moderation you can keep eating it, not like other unhealthy people who refuse to take up exercising & healthy dieting and then are forbidden to eat all the food they love. I just don't understand how this people think that loading up with exotic medication is gonna help them more than exercise & healthy dieting
The idea is to stay healthy so that you can eat all (In moderation off course) the food you love till your dying days.
New research conducted by University of Kentucky claims that,
" there may be a biological indicator to tell us when we are working hard at resisting temptation and consequently when we are vulnerable to doing things contrary to our intentions.
A measure of cardiac regulation called "heart rate variability" (HRV) appears to be linked to self regulation.
The researchers conducted a two-part study in order to test their hypothesis. In the first, participants were instructed to fast for three hours in order to take part in what they believed was a "physiology of food preference" experiment. Participants' HRV was monitored while they were presented with a tray of cookies, candy and....carrots. Temptation, in this case, was indicated by giving into the tastier but decidedly less healthy snack of cookies and candy.
HRV as it turns out was considerably higher when people were working to resist temptation (eating carrots rather than cookies and chocolate) than when they were not, suggesting that HRV was mirroring the self regulation taking place.
In part two of the experiment, after resisting or giving into temptation, the authors had the participants attempt to complete difficult anagrams, some of which were impossible to solve. The authors measured how long participants persevered at the anagrams and as predicted, those who had exerted high self regulation by resisting sweets were more likely to give up earlier on the task.
Moreover, the people who had higher levels of HRV by nature, regardless of giving into temptation, were likely to endure longer at the anagram task.
HRV was not singled out as an indicator on a lark. Segerstrom and Solberg Nes noted that the brain structures involved in self regulation overlap considerably with the structures that control HRV which suggested that HRV would accurately reflect self regulation.
So, will we be wearing a cardiac monitor in the near future to gauge whether we are vulnerable in our self regulating abilities? It's doubtful, say the authors. However, when considering special populations with more serious consequences of self regulatory failure (say, alcoholics) HRV feedback could be helpful to determine when those critical relapses in regulation will happen.
Reference: Psychological Science "Heart Rate Variability Reflects Self-Regulatory Strength, Effort, and Fatigue."
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Thanks for all your great input everyone...now it all depends on how I feel today- tired of dieting- im cheating, not tired- stickin to my guns!
